Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Hong Kong and Manila before it, Singapore awaited its fate. Its tree-covered oval island, 27 miles long and 14 miles wide, is separated from the giraffe-like neck of the Malay Peninsula and the oncoming Jap by the mile-wide Strait of Johore. Around the big island on the sea side are scores of tiny islands, on most of which lie camouflaged coastal artillery positions...
...firm hand of the British Empire clamped definitely this week around the neck of one of her stiffest-necked subjects. Somewhere in the Empire, perhaps in Cairo, perhaps in the Far East, Premier U Maung Saw of Burma was fussing and fuming under detention...
...might be that this blue ensemble has carried the red around its neck long enough...
Eight official A.W.V.S. uniforms included breeches and boots for the cycle corps, ski-troop suits for workers in the far North (couriers, spotters, dogsled teamsters in Saranac, N.Y., Alaska, etc.). For A.W.V.S. fingernails, light polish was prescribed; hairdo: simple, preferably short, up off the neck...
...first U.S. show in six years. Cast in weird, glowering embryonic gobs whose lumpy lines suggested the random patterns of molten slag, Lipchitz's bronzes showed writhing subhuman and sub-animal figures. One, called Mother and Child, was a legless, stump-armed female torso, held by the neck in the ponderous grip of a bulgy, anthropoid infant. Each is signed with the thumbprint of Sculptor Lipchitz...